University Of California Press: 1479 books
The Way to Make Wine
How to Craft Superb Table Wines at Home
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
“Can you change a tire? Then you can make wine. This according to Sheridan Warrick, Berkeley author of The Way to Make Wine, a step-by-step guide for home vintners. Warrick walks readers through each step of the process, explaining in plain English crushing, the Brix scale, fermentation, racking...
Criminal Genius
A Portrait of High-IQ Offenders
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
For years, criminologists have studied the relationship between crime and below-average intelligence, concluding that offenders possess IQ scores 8-10 points below those of non-offenders. Little, however, is known about the criminal behavior of those with above-average IQ scores. This book provides...
Runaway Hollywood
Internationalizing Postwar Production and Location Shooting
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
After World War II, as cultural and industry changes were reshaping Hollywood, movie studios shifted some production activities overseas, capitalizing on frozen foreign earnings, cheap labor, and appealing locations. Hollywood unions called the phenomenon “runaway” production to underscore the...
Screw Consent
A Better Politics of Sexual Justice
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
When we talk about sex—whether great, good, bad, or unlawful—we often turn to consent as both our erotic and moral savior. We ask questions like, What counts as sexual consent? How do we teach consent to impressionable youth, potential predators, and victims? How can we make consent sexy?
What...
Food and Power
A Culinary Ethnography of Israel
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Drawing on ethnography conducted in Israel since the late 1990s, Food and Power considers how power is produced, reproduced, negotiated, and subverted in the contemporary Israeli culinary sphere. Nir Avieli explores issues such as the definition of Israeli cuisine, the ownership of hummus, the privatization...
A Dream Denied
Incarceration, Recidivism, and Young Minority Men in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Young minority men are often portrayed in popular media as victims of poverty and discrimination. *A Dream Denied *delves deeper, investigating the social and cultural implications of the “American dream” narrative for young minority men in the juvenile justice systems in Boston and Chicago....
Abrazando el Espíritu
Bracero Families Confront the US-Mexico Border
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Structured to meet employers’ needs for low-wage farm workers, the well-known Bracero Program recruited thousands of Mexicans to perform physical labor in the United States between 1942 and 1964 in exchange for remittances sent back to Mexico. As partners and family members were dispersed across...
by Carol A. Hess
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
Experiencing Latin American Music draws on human experience as a point of departure for musical understanding. Students explore broad topics—identity, the body, religion, and more—and relate these to Latin American musics while refining their understanding of musical concepts and cultural-historical...
Life Lived in Relief
Humanitarian Predicaments and Palestinian Refugee Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Palestinian refugees’ experience of protracted displacement is among the lengthiest in history. In her breathtaking new book, Ilana Feldman explores this community’s engagement with humanitarian assistance over a seventy-year period and their persistent efforts to alter their present and future...
Decriminalizing Domestic Violence
A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Decriminalizing Domestic Violence asks the crucial, yet often overlooked, question of why and how the criminal legal system became the primary response to intimate partner violence in the United States. It introduces readers, both new and well versed in the subject, to the ways in which the criminal...
The Making of a Teenage Service Class
Poverty and Mobility in an American City
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
In The Making of a Teenage Service Class, Ranita Ray uncovers the pernicious consequences of focusing on risk behaviors such as drug use, gangs, violence, and teen parenthood as the key to ameliorating poverty. Ray recounts the three years she spent with sixteen poor black and brown youth, documenting...
Animal Ethos
The Morality of Human-Animal Encounters in Experimental Lab Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
What kinds of moral challenges arise from encounters between species in laboratory science? Animal Ethos draws on ethnographic engagement with academic labs in which experimental research involving nonhuman species provokes difficult questions involving life and death, scientific progress, and other...
Cross-National Public Opinion about Homosexuality
Examining Attitudes across the Globe
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Public opinion about homosexuality varies substantially around the world. While residents in some nations have embraced gay rights as human rights, people in many other countries find homosexuality unacceptable. What creates such big differences in attitudes? This book shows that cross-national differences...
In the Field
Life and Work in Cultural Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
This book offers an invaluable look at what cultural anthropologists do when they are in the field. Through fascinating and often entertaining accounts of their lives and work in varied cultural settings, the authors describe the many forms fieldwork can take, the kinds of questions anthropologists...